Nairobi Conversations

(editing in process)
complete playlist:
http://www.archive.org/details/Sauti_Nairobi
http://www.archive.org/details/Sauti_Nairobi_520
http://www.archive.org/details/Sauti_Nairobi_607

A collection of 46 'jingles' from Nairobi presenting an audio window to the cultural-activist and socio-political scenes as encountered by radio continental drift in May-August 2010. The collection is meant as an appetizer for and bridge to more detailed audio portraits of artists, collectives and cultural activists still on the editing table and awaiting up-loading; introducing themselves are, i.a.

Nairobi Arts Trust http://www.nairobi-arts.org/ (contact: Jimmy Ogonga)
Ukooflani Mau Mau www.myspace.com/ukooflani, www.maskani.com (interviewed members of collective: Abdilai www.mayspace.com/Alaik , Fujo, Gas Fyatu icekenya@gmail.com),
L-NESS (Lydia Akwabi) “girl power” lakwabi@yahoo.com (info: http://trinitypromotionstz.blogspot.com/2010/08/nairobis-l-ness-hits-dar-es-salaam-with.html )
Kennet B, poet, environmentalist, sound production consultant; e-mail: kenodongo@yahoo.com ; Facebook: kennet soundland
Kalamashaka (Robert matumbai@yahoo.com ),
( info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamashaka )
rhyme fm www.rhymfm.com
(MC Shenzy rhymefm@gmail.com & Gas Fyatu);
Pamoja fm www.pamojafm.org
(Ras Juli* & Jahil* of “Pass the Mic” show),
Jah Army (contact: Jahil)
Kuona Trust www.kuonatrust.org
(contact: Danda Jaroljmek, programme manager info@kuonatrust.org ; Sydney, resident artist, Morris Foit, founder member),
Carl Odera (journalist)

With these introductory vox-pops, we’d like to invite on-air and off-air DJs to include spoken word in their mixes & pass on the messages aired here re-mixed with local stories from where ever you are; the present play-list tells a story; yet it's only one of many that could be told... We welcome interested on-line listeners to join in our conversations as we speak. Do get in touch if our words strike a common cord.
Your comments, questions, remixes will feed the fire!
the struggle continues!
thank you for listening!

radio continental drift

a broad casting house in the bag of a drifter
out to here unheard voices
a branch of the growing networks of sound workers,
audio artists, radio communities, and the street corner academies of listening and broadcasting
around the world
radio is happening
when people loiter in public places
the air is free!

switch board: http://www.radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com
on-line sampler: http://www.archive.org/details/RadioContinentalDrift
project blog/ archive: http://www.nogozones.wordpress.com
project blog/ archive: http://www.durbansings.wordpress.com


This audio is part of the collection: Community Audio
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Artist/Composer: radio continental drift
Keywords: Nairobi; Kenya; freedom; history; liberation; struggle; education; ICTs; blogging; colonialism; consumerism; culture; African culture; contemporary arts; hip-hop; public space; graffiti; Kibera; Dandora; L-ness; Jimmy Ogonga; Nairobi Arts Trust; Kalamashaka; Ukooflani; Mau Mau; Mascani; Abdilai; Fujo Makelele; Kennet B; Morris Foit; Kuona Trust; Pamoja fm; Jah Army; Pass the Mic; Koch fm; rhyme fm; MC Shenzy; Gas Fyatu; radio continental drift

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